ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,462, issued on July 1, was assigned to TSUBAKIMOTO CHAIN Co. (Osaka, Japan).

"Low-temperature storage system" was invented by Koichi Ishikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a low-temperature storage system that ensures minimal penetration of moisture into the low-temperature storage chamber from an external environment without involving an increase in size or complexity of the system configuration. The object is achieved by the configuration in this low-temperature storage system wherein a loading/unloading mechanism that carries storage objects into and out of the low-tem...